Ozzy Osbourne on track for highest charting solo album with 'Ordinary Man'

Unleashed to the world last Friday (21st February), ‘Ordinary Man’ is currently at Number 2 on the UK’s midweek Official Albums Chart Update. It’s also the biggest selling album of the week so far on vinyl. 

Ozzy’s previous highest charting solo album in the UK was his 1980 debut ‘Blizzard of Ozz’, which peaked at Number 7. His only other albums to dent the Top 10 are 2007’s ‘Black Rain’ and 1986’s ‘The Ultimate Sin’, which both reached no.8. 

Unfortunately, it’s extremely unlikely ‘Ordinary Man’ will reach the chart summit – the midweek Number 1, ‘Map of the Soul: 7’ by South Korean K-pop act BTS, is currently outselling its nearest three competitors combined. 

Ozzy has previously topped the UK album chart twice with Black Sabbath; first with 'Paranoid' in 1970 and then their final album ‘13’ more than three decades later. 

71-year-old Ozzy Osbourne cancelled his entire North American tour last week so he can travel to Switzerland to receive treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

Alongside his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, Ozzy was hospitalised with pneumonia early last year and then suffered a serious fall in his bedroom, which resulted in him undergoing surgery for neck injuries. .

Despite his health woes, Ozzy recorded ‘Ordinary Man’ last summer alongside producer Andrew Watt on guitars, Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses) on bass and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on drums. 

‘Ordinary Man’ boasts Planet Rock playlisted anthem ‘Under The Graveyard’, the thunderous single ‘Straight To Hell’ featuring Slash and the Elton John collaboration ‘Ordinary Man’.  

Other guest performers on 'Ordinary Man' are Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello and rapper Post Malone.

The ‘Ordinary Man’ track-listing is as follows: 

1. Straight to Hell
2. All My Life
3. Goodbye
4. Ordinary Man (featuring Elton John)
5. Under the Graveyard
6. Eat Me
7. Today is the End
8. Scary Little Green Men
9. Holy for Tonight
10. It's a Raid (featuring Post Malone) 
11. Take What You Want (Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Travis Scott)